Westlake Chemical Corporation ($WLK) Cautious Buy or Hold to $76 Confident Investor Rating: Fair

 

Company name Westlake Chemical Corporation
Stock ticker WLK
Live stock price [stckqut]WLK[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Poor
P/E growth Poor
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Fair
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $83.06
Target stock price (averages with growth) $77.3
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $38.68
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $70.2

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=wlk

Westlake Chemical Corporation, is a vertically integrated manufacturer and marketer of basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers and fabricated building products. The Company’s products include some of the widely used chemicals in the world, which are fundamental to many diverse consumer and industrial markets, including flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, coatings, residential and commercial construction as well as other durable and non-durable goods. In July 2014, the Company acquired Vinnolit Holdings GmbH and its subsidiary companies from Advent International. In July 2014, Westlake Chemical Corp acquired Vinnolit Holdings GmbH, an Ismaning-based manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

 

Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Westlake Chemical Corporation as long as the price is correct. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.

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How was this analysis of Westlake Chemical Corporation calculated?

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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

  • Stock price at the time of the calculation: $67.73
  • Growth: 0.11
  • Current EPS (TTM): $4.97
  • P/E: 13.5
  • Future EPS Calc: $8.37
  • Future Stock Price Calc: $113.05
  • Target stock price: $70.2

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